School on the up as A-Level results shine across the board

Success for Haslingden High students Abigail Stansfield, Rebecca Ratcliffe and Rachael Kershaw

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Rossendale students have been celebrating more outstanding A-level results with overall improvements on last year.

Haslingden High School reported better results than 2010, with most subjects seeing 100 per cent pass rates and increases in higher grade passes and overall score per entry.

A total of 129 students sat A-levels at Haslingden High School.

Headteacher Eve Challinger, who is stepping down this summer after 38 years at the school – seven of them as headteacher – said: "We are delighted with our results and with the year-on-year improvement in achievement.

"Our successes are again a combination of students’ dedication, the expertise and commitment of specialist subject teachers and a diverse and inclusive curriculum.

"We are delighted that the vast majority of our students have achieved their first choice university places, despite the huge increase in applicants this academic year.

"Our congratulations go to all our students and our thanks to parents for their continued support. The school is proud to be an inclusive, non-selective comprehensive and we have without doubt, fulfilled our number one school aim of ‘Achievement for All’."

Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School results were unavailable as we went to press but will be published in next week’s Free Press.

Education experts were predicting as many as one in 10 students nationwide could gain A* grades this year, as competition for university places grows ever stiffer.